Word: tumor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With Kay Denhardt, the reasons for getting online were not financial; they were physical. Four years ago, she had surgery for a brain tumor. Afterward, Denhardt, now 56, wanted information she couldn't find in her hometown of Newark, Ohio. "It was really hard for me at first after surgery," Denhardt says. "I had memory problems. I lost my hearing, and some of my face atrophied. Doctors don't tell you about things like that." When her daughter Teresa moved home to help, she introduced her mom to the Internet. Denhardt searched the Web, learning about new drugs and joining...
...beyond the hype and confusion, something very real is going on. These are exciting times in cancer research, perhaps the most exciting since Richard Nixon declared war on cancer in 1971. Angiogenesis inhibition, the tumor-starving process that Folkman pioneered, is indeed a promising line of research. Dozens of labs are racing to perfect it, some of them doing work that is more advanced than Folkman's. But it's not the only field with potential. Just as exciting, say many researchers, is the revolution in cancer treatments made possible by what they've learned about how genes and cancer...
OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD Your job may pose a risk--for your child. Kids whose mothers worked in the chemical industry for five years before pregnancy may be three times as likely to develop a brain tumor. If fathers did, the risk doubles...
...Augean stable. One can be Atlas and hold up the heavenly vault. But no one has ever succeeded in combining the two roles. Surgery was demanded of Gorbachev, but angry shouts broke out whenever he reached for the scalpel. He wasn't a Philippine healer who could remove a tumor without blood or incisions...
Moments into our Leisure-World experience, we found ourselves walking a rat-sized dog named Lady along spotless sidewalks. While Lady, appropriately accessorized with a pink bow and a tumor half her size, waddled through pristine gardens, we relished our inter-generational paradise. Surrounded by Buicks, pastel buildings, and sweater-clad dogs, we truly had stumbled into spring break Twilight Zone...